Sunday, April 26, 2009

Best 'vine' plants to grow? Easiest..etc?

I live in northern CT and will be buying a house soon %26amp; want to turn my entire backyard into an enchanted forest type of thing...I'd like there to be lots of vines growing up trees, etc...any suggestions on which vine plants to buy?

Best 'vine' plants to grow? Easiest..etc?
I would Buy, Morning Glories. They Are like weeds the self sow every year and the have colorful flowers.


Here are some different varieties:





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Another Vine: Clematis





These are easy to Grow and require little care.





Hope this helps
Reply:IVY, it the easiest . you will have a hard time getting rid of it . you can take stems of it from any where because it will root along the stems. just lay it flat in a furrow [about 2" deep and cover water well for a while and then you can just let it do its thing Boston Ivy is the best for your area.
Reply:English Ivy will do that for you. However, in wind storms the ivy will turn the trees into sails and may cause damage.
Reply:Easy perennial vine is silver lace vine, or clematis panaticula--I think they changed the formal name. Grows vigorously, covered in August with masses of small white fragrant flowers.
Reply:Campsis radicans, or trumpet vine, is easy to grow and it will spread rapidly. If you give it enough sun it will produce hummingbird-attracting reddish flowers. This is a vigorous climber!
Reply:Ohhh morning glories for sure. So many colors and types to choose from and they grow soooooooo fast.
Reply:Some very good vines are honeysuckle, hydrangaes, silver lace vine


Honeysuckle vines attracted hummingbirds and bloom from April til Oct.
Reply:I lived in VT for a long time and always had good luck with Clematis. It gets fuller each year (depending on the type you choose) and the flowers are gorgeous. One thing though, the vines and plant like full sun and warnth, whereas the roots need to be kept cool and somewhat moist, so it is best to have a good deal of mulch covering the base of the plant or even better - plant it amongst some sort of dense ground cover that will keep the roots cool.





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